This paper reviews urban heat (UrHT) challenges following the SBAR (situation,
background, assessment and recommendation) framework. The results indicate that …

Heat waves (HWs) can cause large socioeconomic and environmental impacts. The
observed increases in their frequency, intensity and duration are projected to continue with …

Compound droughts and hot events or extremes (CDHEs) may lead to larger repercussions
than do individual extremes. Due to the disastrous impacts and increased risk of these …

Climate change is a multi-faceted phenomenon, including elevated CO 2, warmer
temperatures, more severe droughts and more frequent storms. All these components can …

An increase in the frequency of extremely hot and dry events has been experienced over the
past few decades in South America, and particularly in Brazil. Regional climate change …

The co-occurrence of warm spells and droughts can lead to detrimental socio-economic and
ecological impacts, largely surpassing the impacts of either warm spells or droughts alone …

Southern Europe is a highly fire-prone region where extreme fires have often disastrous
consequences on both structures and people. Human activities and fire weather conditions …

Compound drought and heat event (CDHE) causes severe impacts on agriculture,
ecosystem, and human health. Based on daily maximum surface air temperature and …

Compound dry and hot conditions frequently cause large impacts on ecosystems and
societies worldwide. A suite of indices is available for the assessment of droughts and …

Climate change is drastically altering the frequency, duration, and severity of compound
drought‐heatwave (CDHW) episodes, which present a new challenge in environmental and …